Mitochondrial Disease: 2,500 UK Women Could Be Spared Worrying About Transmitting It
Thursday, January 29, 2015 - 08:20
in Health & Medicine
Almost 2,500 women of child-bearing age in the United Kingdom are at risk of transmitting mitochondrial disease to their children, evidence of how many families could potentially be helped by new IVF techniques to it.The paper adds data to emotional debates about new regulations. Mitochondrial diseases are caused by inherited mutations in the DNA contained in mitochondria - tiny structures present in every cell that generate energy. Mitochondrial diseases can be devastating and particularly affect tissues that have high energy demands - brain, muscle (including heart), liver and kidney. read more